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Femoral dimensional parameters in African tribes
Author(s) -
Siddiqi Najam
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
the faseb journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.709
H-Index - 277
eISSN - 1530-6860
pISSN - 0892-6638
DOI - 10.1096/fasebj.22.2_supplement.16
Subject(s) - zulu , tribe , femur , black african , condyle , femoral head , anatomy , demography , geography , orthodontics , medicine , anthropology , surgery , history , ethnology , sociology , philosophy , linguistics
The objective of this paper was to determine race‐specific numerical values of different variables of femur in African tribes and compare the values among the African tribes and with the European Africans and other populations. These parameters were identified earlier and studied by author at Johns Hopkins University, USA. This database would be useful to the forensic anthropologists and bones allografts matching. Parameters measured were Femural bone length (FBL), head diameter (HD), head neck length (HNL), mediolateral width of the femoral condyles (Wdf), anteroposterior width of the lateral (Wlc) and medial femoral condyles (Wmc). A total of 386 femurs with no apparent deformities (25 males and 25 females in each tribe) from Zulu, Tswana, Swazi, Soto and Xosa tribes and Europeans Africans were selected from a large collection of bones at School of Anatomy, Witwatersrand University, Johannesburg. Pearson's correlation and Student t‐test was used for statistical analysis. Data showed significant differences among the African tribes and the European Africans. Strong correlation was found between HD and Wdf and Wdf with Wlc and Wmc. Results also showed significant differences in femoral length (p< .001) between European African and Tswana, Swazi and Xosa tribes, however, no significant difference was found between European African and Zulu tribe.